I had the same problems with recognising any other partitions, they are with the set up, but don't show up on the Grub menu. But it has great difficulty in setting up the video, I have a basic onboard nvidia graphic chip.

Paul I think incomplete firmware pkg I sent you a pm to try a new and improved version let me know if it works

'Fraid not. Still no sign of the wireless activity LED coming up, and wicd can't see any wireless networks.

Looking at the loaded modules, everything seems to be there (at least, compared to a working set). The wicd daemon is starting. I did find that /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless was not executable, whereas it is in VL6.0 light. Tried making it executable, but the problem is still there.

toothandnail and nightflier would you run iwconfig in a terminal see if you guys are getting any kind of wireless interface or not. Trying to determine if this is a kernel problem or a tools problem i.e wicd.

Tried installing over a previous installation, reformating to ext4 over what was previously a ext4 formated install of soho6.0. When I got to the user set-up section I was told that my username already existed. So I thought I errored and tried it again. This time choosing ext3. Once again the installation failed to format the partition for the new install. So I tried again, this time launching into gparted where I choose the partition and attempted to change it to ext3. It failed with this error...mkfs.ext3: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot open shared oject file: NO such file or directory.

Cairo dock: When mousing over and getting "zoom", the original (smaller size one) stays visible in the background, resulting in a double image.

I suspect you'll find its a lot more than a double image....

The problem is how Cairo Dock interacts with Xfce. It has its own autostart mechanisim, If Xfce is exited with the 'save session for future logins' box ticked, the next time you log into the system, two copies of Cairo Dock will start, and the next time, three copies.... Your best bet is to righ click on Cairo Dock, select quit and keep doing that until all copies are closed, then log out with the 'save' box ticked. On the next and subsequent logouts, make sure the 'save' box is unticked.

Must admit, while Cairo Dock is very pretty and does some pretty fancy things, I would much rather use Wbar - simple, light and functional....

toothandnail and nightflier would you run iwconfig in a terminal see if you guys are getting any kind of wireless interface or not. Trying to determine if this is a kernel problem or a tools problem i.e wicd.

Hmm. I wondered if I might have been affected by the installer failing to format the partition, I've just reinstalled the alpha. I first wiped the partition from a Salix boot, then created a new ext4 file system. Then installed.

Didn't make any difference to the wireless problem. But it did bring up another problem - in the final stages of the install, when I tried to select the keyboard layout for the console, it went into an endless loop. I had to cancel in order to break the loop, and I've been left with the default US layout for console.

toothandnail and nightflier would you run iwconfig in a terminal see if you guys are getting any kind of wireless interface or not. Trying to determine if this is a kernel problem or a tools problem i.e wicd.